Well the surgeon removed the lymph node June 22, and the first path said uterine sarcoma. My cousin is a path at Memorial Sloan Kettering and didn't like the path report, so when I met with the gyn onc he had his hospital look at it. Allegheny path said bone cancer. I have had a CT scan, trans vag ultrasound, D&C, cystoscopy, PET CT, bone scan, abdominal MRI, colonoscopy, and upper endoscopy. Nothing, praise God, and we pray the tests continue to show nothing. I'm finally with a decent onc, one that doesn't illegally shoot lions in Tanzania. Yes, my original gyn onc was Dr. Jan Seski, who is just a heartless doc. It has nothing to do with the lion, he's just a jerk. So I have no choice but to use alternative therapies since we still don't know the primary and there's still, again praise God, no mets. My slides are now at Magee for the third opinion, and are about to be sent to Harvard for Dr. Chris Fletcher to look at.
This was modern medicine's chance to show me what they can do. They failed. I know as much today as I did June 22. My second CT was yesterday morning and the new gyn onc wants exploratory surgery.
This was modern medicine's chance to show me what they can do. They failed. I know as much today as I did June 22. My second CT was yesterday morning and the new gyn onc wants exploratory surgery. It's not that modern medicine "failed", it's that we are still barely more knowledgeable about the complexities of the human body than we were 100 years ago. Medical research is a slow, slow process, confounded by the fact that researchers want so much to get results that they sometimes read into data more than is there. The better we understand cancer, the better treatments can be devised--unfortunately, we have only minimal understanding of the many diseases called "cancer."
You have a lot of patience for all of those tests. I'm not certain I could do that...
I looked up that "alternative treatment", and have one piece of advice to offer: don't do the enema part of it. Otherwise, I don't think it will hurt you..
Good luck, I hope they can find the original tumor and take care of it for you.